Word: modicums
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More Cuts Coming. France's belt-tightening was perhaps staged in some part to make the soldiers at the front feel that people at home were doing their bit. Doubtless the British measures contained a modicum of morale, too. But Robert Spear Hudson, Britain's Secretary of Overseas Trade, was not leading cheers when he told a Glasgow audience last week...
...their cuffs, figured that Mr. Morgenthau's services to the Government would thus terminate in about nine months-unless Congress saw fit to move its chair back to higher ground. That move is just what the next session of Congress is expected to make, with only a modicum of fuss-but the Republican fuss can be counted on to be more than a modicum...
Congratulations upon a difficult job performed with a modicum of success. You have managed to introduce a cheap and flippant note even in your account of persons most sacred to Canadians: your story of the Royal Visit to Canada...
...Chicago, Ill. and Rome, Italy two top-ranking newsmen got ready last week to leave jobs which have brought them fame aplenty and a modicum of fortune...
...find a few traces of sand or ashes on an otherwise glassy, treacherous surface, but such life-saving spots are far and few between, and when found, they exist only in small piles, so that their effectiveness is definitely limited. In order to navigate with even a modicum of safety, or a minimum of alacrity, so essential in these days when time-saying becomes all important, the student is forced to place one foot in front of another with extreme deliberation, and like a tight-rope walker, proceed at snail's pace. If the journey be from Dunster House...